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Entries from September 2008
Writing Interesting and Targeted Excerpts
September 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
Latest PR Update Some Interesting Observations
September 29th, 2008 · 9 Comments
It was early on Saturday morning September 27th when I was on my little PR1 blog For No REal Reason when I looked up and noticed the little bit of green that had been there was missing. Hum! different data center? Nope PR update. I lost my lowly little PR.
Tags: Blogging In General
The RSS Wigdet Under Utilized
September 27th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Widgets were built into the basic structure of Wordpress about a bazzilion versions ago. One of those widgets native to Wordpress is the RSS Widget. It is a very powerful tool for WordPress bloggers but I don’t see it being used very often.
We all know that fresh content is one of the things Google bots [...]
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
The LBC Designation for Comments
September 27th, 2008 · 10 Comments
I’m thinking about creating a designation for Comments in an effort to make managing comments easier. I’m doing this for two reasons.
Do Follow SEO Lists
There are now multiple lists of blogs which allow or use “do follow” on their blogs comments. These list have lead to an increase in what I refer to as comment [...]
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
ReBlogWorld BlogWorld Take Away
September 24th, 2008 · 9 Comments
First, I don’t usually write this kind of post here at the Lab. But I’m writing this one for several reasons.
I have to thank Todd Carpenter and Jason Berman for putting together a fantastic conference for REBloggers
I need to suck up to both of them because next year (REBlogworld09 October 15, 2009) I [...]
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
Active Strain Lives as Outside Blog
September 16th, 2008 · 9 Comments
ActiveStrain.com “Outside in the Rain” is an Outside Blog set up to demonstrate the difference between an Active Rain Outside blog and an Open Source Wordpress Blog.
It is a tongue in cheek look at Outside blogs which Rich Jacobson and I will be debating at REBlogworld on Friday of this week ( Sept. 19,2008 ). [...]
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
When It Is Okay To Say “Great Post”
September 15th, 2008 · 22 Comments
There has been a lot written about comment spam including the taboo comment example of “Great Post”. Did you know there is a time when it is appropriate to to leave a comment “Great Post”.
Today I had a “Great Post comment which inspired this post. The person who left the comment apologized for leaving it [...]
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
Wordpress Captions Nuisance or Opportunity
September 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments
One of the first things I noticed about WP 2.6 was the inclusion of captions for photos. I hated them. Well, I didn’t hate them. I hated having to deal with the CSS to get them to work. I also didn’t like the javascript window which opened (very slowly I might [...]
Tags: Blogging In General
Hosting Your Own Image Files
September 12th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Is the Weight worth the Freight
I wrote in July 2007 about “Photos an Overlooked Part of Your Real Estate Blog Traffic” In short when you host your own photos and reference them in posts the photos and the URL to those photos get indexed by the search engines. They store those links and [...]
Tags: Real Estate Blogging
Blog Lab Seemed to Have a Cold
September 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Please note, I’m not saying it had a virus. IT DID NOT. It had a cold. A cold I gave it while trying to nurse it back to health.
Typical isn’t it. Break something while trying to fix it.
Last night the lab was running the slowest I had ever seen it run. [...]
Tags: Blogging In General





